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1876. 1896. 



Twenty Years. 



A HISTORY 



OF THE 



CLASS OF 1876, 



AMHERST COLLEGE, 



WITH AN ACCOUNT OF 



The Twentieth Year Anniversary. 







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Introduction. 



FINALLY '76 has a class history. I should say a second, for a 
class book containing class histories for three of the college 
years was published at graduation. None has been published since. 
This one was undertaken by C. S. Beardslee and myself at the 
suggestion of several members of the class, in connection with our 
twentieth anniversary, which we were also urged to boom and bring 
to pass, which thing we did. The book now follows. In some 
respects it is meager enough to be worthy of an apology. This 
feature we omit. We tried to get the story of his life from every 
man. The facts we did not receive we can not publish. The 
delinquents were interviewed by three " return-after-5-days " letters, 
which brought us no returns. We therefore conclude that we have 
the correct addresses of all the men except Paullin. Whoever knows 
his whereabouts should send his address to the class secretary. 

At the reunion in Amherst, last June, it was suggested, perhaps 
voted, that some parts of the former class book be republished in 
this. After a careful reading we concluded it unwise to do so in the 
form suggested. The matter of the book is interesting because of 
its reminiscent quality, but hardly worth reprinting. That book 
contains the class oration, by G. L. Smith, on " Exclusiveness among 
American Scholars"; the class poem, by W. H. Sybrandt, subject, 
"Cossayuna"; the class ode, by D. M. Pratt; the grove oration, by 
O. D. Clark; the farewell ode, '78 to 76, by F. G. Burgess, and the 
class histories of Sophomore year, by S. R. Johnston; Junior year, by 
O. D. Clark; Senior year, by C. S. Reynolds, and the prophecy, by 
G, W. Cloak. 

Some passages from these class histories are worth quoting, e.g., 
Sam Johnston's remark upon the changes in our class membership at 
the beginning of Sophomore year: " Of those who were with us at 
the end of Freshman year, all returned except Blaisdell and E. Rich- 
mond. Blaisdell, somewhat favoring the Methodist persuasion or 

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the co-education of the sexes, selected Middletown as a place of 
study. Richmond marries a wife, and goes into banking. In their 
stead come the persons of Beck, A. G., and W. B. Clark, Fiske, Hun- 
ter, Jewett, Kelsey, Seely, Stearns and White. To these we could 
not object, but we thought: ''What a crowd !' " 

This description of the Sophomore class supper at the Brooks 
House, Brattleboro, Vt., will quicken memories. ** Visiting places 
of interest and forming new acquaintances for the time being, were 
the attractions till dusk, then songs on the balcony till the hour of 
supper. This gave satisfaction in every particular, especially to the 
hungry and ' Antiveneneans.' Of the toasts. Bowler's response to 
* HgO ' and O. D.'s to 'r. H. m.' are particularly worthy of notice. 
These were given 'mid roars of laughter, and were pleasant remind- 
ers of the past. We all returned home as we left — sober." 

The event of Sophomore year, as all will remember, was its 
close, which we celebrated in a manner worthy of our class and the 
occasion, it being the eve of our glorious Fourth of July. Sam thus 
describes it: "The last and greatest of our efforts came the bonfire 
of the old and honored custom of celebrating the Fourth. In this 
we were to turn our backs upon the past, rid ourselves of Sophomoric 
debris and make one awful leap into that dreadful unknown, so- 
called Junior dignity. We did leap, and left our heel-prints so 
deeply stamped above and beyond all former celebrations that it will 
remain to memory so long as the name of '76. 

" Because of unforeseen providences, we failed in getting our 
Northampton cannon, but, owing to the perseverance of our Com- 
mittee on Artillery, all was ready at one o'clock, and then, as some- 
one remarked, * suddenly all hell broke loose.' In harmonic discord 
College Hill echoed and re-echoed to the sound of cannon, anvil, 
and, to that less thundering yet more terrifying noise, horns and 
devils' fiddles. The old and feeble awoke, turned in their beds and 
asked, ' Why all this 2' The broken-down and jaded clergy beat 
the air, and with gnashing teeth growled at such a custom. Fair 
maidens with yet fairer forms, arose, drew aside the curtains of their 
chambers, and, half in admiration and half disapproval, lisped, ' Oh^ 
what folly!' And, as a nation, nearly a century old on this 
memorable morning, was born 'mid the ringing of bells and thunder- 

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ing of cannon, so we, in like manner, crossed the middle partition of 
our college course." 

The picturesque event of Junior year was the publishing of 
the Olio, emphasized in its startling feature by the concurrent first 
issue of the Student by its '76 editors. Some will recall that there 
was a picture in the Olio and a criticism in the Student. The sequel 
is thus chronicled by " O. D." : 

" At morning prayers, November 16th, a fierce Philippic was 
delivered from the pulpit by ' Rev. William A. Stearns, D. D., LL. D., 
President; Samuel Green, Professor of Biblical History and Inter- 
pretation, and Pastor of the College Church,' denouncing in terms 
more forcible than polite, the editors of both publications, which 
raised excitement to the highest pitch. 

" During the evening of the same day, a faculty meeting was 
held, at which it was decided to be for the interest of the college to 
expel one of the editors of the Olio, whose name was especially 
prominent in the publication. Friday morning the Olio board were 
invited to meet a committee of the faculty consisting of Profs. Snell, 
Tyler and Seelye, immediately. 

" The board conferred with this dread triumvirate. Many 
words passed between them, but no information was given of the 
expulsion, and they parted, neither side having committed itself. 

" Immediately on leaving, proof of the duplicity of the faculty 
was given from an outside source. 

" The indignation caused by this was the occasion of that mem- 
orable class meeting held in Athense hall, at which the class feeling 
which had so long laid dormant, waiting for something to rouse it, 
showed itself to a degree which bid defiance to all opposition. Every 
member of the class was present, and each unhesitatingly took upon 
his shoulders his share of the matter without flinching. Stirring 
were the speeches, and fierce the debate, but, with perfect unanimity, 
resolutions were adopted showing the sentiment of the class. 

" The next afternoon further resolutions were adopted and pre- 
sented to the faculty, which convinced them that it would be impol- 
itic to proceed with the matter, and the order of the expulsion was 
withdrawn." 

We pass over Reynolds' account of our Senior year work, the 

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lectures on the "so-called Higher Evidences of Christianity," the 
study of the relatives of Chaucer and Shakespeare, especially of his 
sister Anne! the lectures on history by Prof. Burgess, Prof. Seelye's 
return from Congress, and other such things, not omitting later lec- 
tures on the Nebular Hypothesis by one Dr. Burr, account of which 
our historian gives seriatim. These are all fresh in memory, as are 
our earlier lessons in chemistry. But this passage should be pre- 
served, and we quote: 

" True to her name, '76 has been a revolutionary class. She 
abolished the ' rush ' and built such a Fourth of July bonfire that the 
college will never have another. No sooner did she assume the 
control of the Student and the Olio than she shook the college to its 
lowest foundations — students, faculty, trustees and alumni. Senior 
year she inaugurated the plan of an open air reception, and attacked 
the gloomy bastile of commencement orations. If we mistake not, 
the credit of this last move belongs to Swift. Then the Student board 
discussed the matter over their creams at Gunn's, the petition was 
circulated, the faculty individually buttonholed, the result of it all 
being a crafty compromise on the part of that august but deceptive 
body, whereby the departments were to be represented." 

The historian continues: " June 5th, came the final examination; 
the next day, the last prayers, when we marched in as we had seen 
other classes before us do, the words of parting from the president, 
the sing upon the steps, the commencement rehearsal in College hall." 

Then, at noon, came our last chance at a licensed racket. 
Reynolds thus remarks of it: 

" Who could describe that blowing out ? ' The morning was 
come of a mighty day.' All through its early hours was heard * the 
music of preparation.' There was a hush of expectancy, and then 
came the fun. The bell pealed its merriest, the horse-fiddles 
groaned and snorted, the anvil spoke loud and sharp, the horns sur- 
passed in their hideous racket even the highest expectation of the 
assisting Soph. The townies gathered amazed; the echoes were 
sounded back from Holyoke; gladness ruled the hour. For it was 
the merriest, maddest time of all the Senior year." 

The chronicle ends with brief mention of the death of our 
beloved President Stearns, the simple but most impressive funeral, 

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the passing of Senior vacation, the busy scenes of commencement 
week, the class supper at the Crocker House in New London, with 
its tender farewells, and a reflection upon the friendships of college 
days. To keep a fresh memory of some of the pranks and nonsense 
of those happy days will keep these friendships alive and help to 
keep in us the spirit of boys. For this reason we have quoted as we 
have done from our class histories. The real flavor of college life 
is in them. 

Reference to the experiences of Senior year will bring fre;sh to 
the minds of many of us the deep religious interest in the college, 
which began on the Day of Prayer for Colleges of our Senior year. 
Impressions made and purposes formed then have been abiding. 
The impetus to character growth then received has been a potent 
factor in the lives of not a few of us. 

But what would the chronicler of these twenty years since grad- 
uation say of us ? I am not that chronicler, but having just now a 
better acquaintance with the class than any other, I am qualified to 
say what no one of us would say of himself^ in print, that we have a 
record worthy of the promise of twenty years ago. We graduated 
sixty-eight men, and I have yet to learn of a failure. The seven 
who have died, died in the harness, every man doing his best in the 
place where Providence placed him. 

Morally we are better men than when we graduated. We 
occupy positions of leadership; some, places of distinction. We are 
now thirteen of us practicing law, fourteen in the teaching profession 
in schools, colleges and seminaries, ten are in the active ministry, five 
are practicing medicine, one is a journalist, one in a college library 
and seventeen are in business. 

Of the thirty-four who were sometime connected with the class 
but did not graduate, we have given such information as we could 
gain. 

None of us have climbed to such a dizzy height of honor as to 
be out of sight of the rest. We are an average lot of steady climbers, 
men of sterling worth. That's honest, and a characteristic of the 
class to be proud of. 

As you read the book you will observe with pride George's pro- 
lific work in behalf of good literature, and Plimpton's distinguished 

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success in business. To have gathered such a library as is described 
in the sketch of his life is an achievement worthy of praise as a real 
contribution to educational history. Rowland, too, has done a 
work which has made his an honored name among our honored 
American missionaries. Others might be instanced, but we forbear. 
We are a fine crowd all through ! That is what the wives said at 
the reunion. 

Our reunion A. L. Smith has described. We had a royal good 
time. Several spoke in anticipation of our quarter century 
reunion in 1901, and a number of suggestions were made. The 
sentiment of all was, *' we must have every man here next time if we 
have to send a sheriff." 

Henry H. Kelsey. 
Hartford, Conn., Nov., 1896. 




The Twentieth Anniversary.. 



Written by A. L. SMITH. 



THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY of the graduation' of a 
college class is specially interesting and significant. Before 
reaching the early forties men do not, as a rule, rise to a full con- 
sciousness and independent use of their own powers But at a time 
when their age has nearly doubled since leaving college, one may 
fairly look for fruition instead of promise only. A forecast of their 
future can be made with a tolerable degree of accuracy. It is a 
period when it may be said to be pretty nearly definitely settled what 
manner of men they are — and are to be. 

It was some such thought as this that induced the writer — 
dignified by the name of historian — to come several hundred miles 
to attend the twentieth anniversary reunion of 1876 — made possible 
by the untiring efforts of classmates Beardslee and Kelsey. 

The reunion was held and the dinner eaten, at Walker Hall, on 
Tuesday afternoon of Commencement week. The "boys" dropped 
in, one by one, until there were mustered twenty out of a total of 
sixty-eight graduates. 

The following members of the class were present : 

ROBERT B. CLARK, JOHN H. JEWETT and wife, 

WILLIAM I. WASHBURN, GEORGE A. PLIMPTON and wife 

OSMAN D. CLARK, MILTON B. McKNIGHT, 

HERBERT H. SANDERSON, EDWARD H. KNIGHT and wife, 

McGEORGE BUNDY and wife, WILLIAM H. WHITING and wife. 

ROBERT W. PATTON, EDWARD DICKINSON, 

CHARLES P. SEARLE, CLARK S. BEARDSLEE and wife. 

E. A. BALDWIN, GILBERT R. HAWES, 

FRANKLIN RIPLEY and wife, ALEXANDER L. SMITH, 

AARON B. HUNTER and wife, HENRY H. KELSEY and wife. 

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As your historian looked about him and noted the thinning hair, 
the gathering wrinkles and the gray beards, it seemed to him as if all 
the class (except himself) had been growing old. From this reflec- 
tion he was rudely awakened by the candid remark of one of the 
boys, who, after staring in his face for several minutes without a 
glimmer of recognition, and being told who it was, said: ^' Well, you 
have changed more than any man in the class." Was it really so ? 

*'^ Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, labuntur anni.'* 

It was, indeed, a memorable occasion for those of us who were 
there. Harry Kelsey presided — than whom none was more cordially 
welcomed by all the others. His face, more genial if possible after 
the score of years, helped to thaw our natural reserves and dispel a 
feeling of depression aroused by the evidences of the inevitableness 
of the lapse of time. 

Harry is, of course, a preacher; perhaps we should say a pastor. 
We thought of Chaucer's parson: 

"But Cristes lore, and his apostles twelve 
He taughte, but first he folwede it himselve." 

McKnight was there, too; less changed, we thought, than most; 
with somewhat thin, stooping form, and full black beard tinged with 
gray at the edges. He tells of a successful business life in his native 
Pennsylvania. He has the same old quip and jibe which we knew 
so well twenty years ago. Now, as then, he is a fellow of "infinite 
jest." 

There, too, was "Queen" Patton, who had come from Chicago 
for the occasion. He had settled down into a sedate gray- whiskered, 
middle-aged business man, who gave evidences of material pros- 
perity. 

Hawes, too, was in evidence; smooth pated, smooth tongued. 
He is a New York lawyer, and, while we did not at first recognize 
his face, his speech betrayed him. Age can not wither nor custom 
stale his infinite variety. 

Washburn was with us; goodjooking and inclined to a portly 
carriage; less changed in personal appearance than many, and, on 
the whole, as we thought, much like the Washburn of 1872-1876. 

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There was Ed. Dickinson. He has the same slight trim built 
figure as of yore. To his well-known moustache he has added a 
thick growth of beard. While at Amherst, we used to think his 
already graceful pen indicated a literary career. But music claimed 
him for her own and we were glad to hear from his own lips some- 
what of his work in the line of higher musical education. 

McGeorge Bundy is a successful lawyer of Grand Rapids, 
Michigan, where he has a beautiful and happy home, with two sturdy 
youngsters, who bid fair at no distant day to rival the "old man/" in 
oratoricals. From what he told us, it is clear that " Mac" is making 
a specialty of the domestic virtues. 

Beardslee was, as of old, dignified and earnest. The years have 
left their mark upon his kindly, honest face. He told us of pro- 
longed physical pain and its effect upon his life and modes of 
thought. 

Ripley has lived a quiet life in his native New England and 
seemed to us the least changed of any of the class. 

Searle was there, tall and handsome. He told some interesting 
and amusing incidents of his postgraduate career. After several 
essays in different directions, he concluded that he was intended to 
be a lawyer and to live in Boston. We heard, from others, of a 
happy marriage and social distinction. 

Plimpton we were all glad to greet. He has the old, kindly 
face, with some additional lines graven by years of work and the 
business cares of a large publishing house. He looks the embodi- 
ment of the successful man of business. He has interested himself 
in the collection of rare and curious books; and in this (a by- 
product, as it were, of his business) he has been characteristically 
successful. 

R. B. Clark has found his life work in preaching, which seems 
quite in the order of things. We know his earnestness of purpose 
and devotion to his work are helping to make the world around him 
better. 

Knight was there; grave, serious and quiet, as always. He, too, 
is preaching in Connecticut, and will leave the heritage of a useful 
life to several children, whose photographs (with a touch of pardon- 
able pride) he showed us, challenging any man to produce their equal. 

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Hunter we could not mistake as we saw him approaching. His 
clerical coat seemed the most fitting garb. No man enjoyed the 
reunion more or was more cordial in the expression of a desire to 
see us all again. 

O. D. Clark is an important officer of one of the large insurance 
companies. He is a type of the New England man of affairs; prac- 
tical, busy and in all he says giving evidence of a sound common 
sense and knowledge of men and things. 

Sanderson's face is concealed and disguised by a full reddish 
beard and we tried in vain to identify him. His Yankee shrewdness 
marked him out for a business career before leaving college. 

Whiting is doing good work in the Greenfield High School, 
where he has taught for a number of years. His boys have given 
evidence of a careful and conscientious training. 

Jewett was the only representative of the medical profession 
present. He is thoroughly loyal to his calling and jealous of the 
honor of his profession. As he spoke of his life work we could not 
but be impressed with his earnestness and seriousness of purpose. 

It seemed fitting that Baldwin, always older than the rest of us, 
should preach to us a little sermon and exhort us to remember that 
we were still young, with the really effective part of life before us. 

Twenty years were, for a short time, almost blotted out. We 
saw for the moment, not the middle-aged men about the table, but 
the boys of '72-76. We lived over again those memorable years, 
and the shadows were lengthening as we clasped hands to say good- 
bye once more. We had renewed our youth. Not a man there but 

felt— 

"If much be gone, there is much remains, 
By the embers of loss I count my gains." 



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Class Officers: 

President, GEORGE A. PLIMPTON. 

Secretary and Treasurer, EDWARD H. KNIGHT. 

Historian, ALEXANDER L. SMITH. 
Class Book for J90J, McGEORGE BUNDY. 



History of the Class^ 



if^nXVi JpietjCaXf gax;0tX.— No reply. Latest address, ' 724 
Central Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. 



SIX0maj8i ^tojetrUJS giaXXaVjd^.— Living in Evanston, 111. His 
business address is 355 Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. 

He was superintendent of schools at Navarre, Ohio, 1878-9, 
and principal of Unadilla Academy, Unadilla, N. Y., 1879-80. In 
1880 he entered the employ of Ginn & Co., as their agent at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, continuing until 1891. He has been a member of the 
firm of Ginn & Co. since 1890, with his office, since 1891, at Chicago. 

Received the degree of A. M. from Amherst, in 1879. Has 
traveled in England, France, Germany and Switzerland, and is a 
member of Union League and Congregational Clubs, Chicago; the 
Evanston Club and Evanston Boat Club, Evanston, 111. 

Was married January 20, 1886, to Miss Belle Clark, at Colum- 
bus, Ohio, who died February 11th, 1888, leaving one child, Clifford 
Bateman Ballard, who was born Nov. 5, 1887. 



'^drtxnnd ^Xutrcmjer '^VCXUzX.—Now living at Ayer, Mass. 

Since graduation he has been principal of several high schools. 

In 1890 he became superintendent of the public schools of 
Ayer, Littleton and Westford, Mass., which position he now occupies. 

He was married in the autumn of 1877, to Miss Susan Marvin, 
who during the previous year was teacher of German in Antioch 
College, Antioch, Ohio. He has no children. 

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^jcrrajce ^XViUQ gai;:tXjett.— Address 25 State Street, Newbury- 
port, Mass. 

" After graduation, in fall of 1876 I took the place of the principal 
of the high school at Merrimacport, Mass., for a few weeks, then 
for winter of 1876-7 the Barnard School, an academy at Southamp- 
ton, N. H. In February, 1877, I began study of law in office of 
Hon. Geo. W. Gate, Esq., of Amesbury, Mass. In spring of 1877, I 
taught a term of school at Salisbury, Mass., pursuing my law study 
out of school hours. I was examined for admission to the bar in 
September, 1878, and admitted early in December, 1878. Between 
my examination and admission, I again took the place of the princi- 
pal of the Merrimacport High School for a fortnight, when my 
school teaching closed. 

" I opened office at foregoing address in Newburyport, in April, 
1879, and have been in full practice here ever since. 

" Of degrees I have the simple A. B., as the college authorities 
demanded $5 for an A. M., and I considered the $5 worth the most. 
As to public offices, I have been city solicitor of Newburyport four 
years. Have been commissioner of insolvency for the term of three 
years, special justice of the police court of Newburyport since 1882. 

" As to travels, my life seems to be much made up of travel, as I 
travel some 10,000 miles a year, but hardly ever get more than a few 
hours away from the Hub. 

" As to books and pamphlets, I have had the honor to be chosen 
to compile a municipal register for this city, which is the extent of 
my literary efforts. 

** Realizing that the law is a jealous mistress, I have paid close 
attention to it and have given little attention to outside matters; my 
chief recreation therefrom has been general reading, of which I have 
done a great deal. 

" Of my accomplishments at the bar I am too modest to speak for 
myself. 

'* As I have given to my work that close attention which in these 
days is required of all who expect success, the years have gone by so 
fast that it is almost with astonishment that I find it is twenty years 
since we graduated, and that those twenty years have been to me 

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so uneventful, but they have been to me happy and pleasant years, 
as I hope they have been to all the dear boys of '76." 

He was married at Newburyport, December 25th, 1882, to Ella 
M. Dockum, daughter of Warren and Susan A. Dockum, of New- 
buryport. He has two children, Grace S., born October 3, 1883; 
Susan E., born January 26, 1893. 



During Senior year Bateman became absorbingly interested in 
work under Professor Burgess, and began special lines of study 
which he followed up after graduation. He spent several years in 
study in France and Germany, becoming probably the best informed 
man in the country on the subject of administrative law. Return- 
ing, he engaged in instruction in the school of which Professor 
Burgess is the head, connected with Columbia College, in New 
York city, giving all promise of a brilliant future. But by his severe 
self discipline in his scholarly pursuits he had undermined his health, 
and ere long he fell a victim to disease and died in New York city. 

Note. — This general and unsatisfactory sketch of Bateman, the 
compiler of these sketches writes as the book goes to print, having 
failed in every attempt to secure an accurate account of the short 
career of one of the most earnest scholars and promising men of our 
class. 



^iKXU JmitlX gjeaiC^JSXjeje.— Address, Hartford, Conn. 

Following graduation he took the three years' course in Hart- 
ford Theological Seminary. The two years then following were 
spent in the same institution in instruction in Hebrew. The summer 
and autumn of 1881 were spent in Europe in study and travel. Owing 
to broken health his study at Berlin University had to be remitted, 
and nearly a year was spent in rest at his old home in Coventry, N.Y. 
In October of 1882, he took a Congregational parish in Lemars, 
Iowa, where he remained until March, 1885. In June of that year 

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he took charge of a church in Prescott, Arizona, where he remained 
only nine months. In July of 1886, he settled with the First Church 
in West Springfield, Mass., remaining two years. In February of 1888, 
he was summoned to relieve his old teacher in the seminary at Hart- 
ford by assuming for the remainder of the school year the instruction 
in systematic theology. In May of that year he was called to the 
associate professorship of systematic theology in Hartford, and in 
May of 1892, to the full professorship of Biblical dogmatics and 
ethics. This position he still holds. His studies have been in the 
Biblical sciences and in the history of philosophy, theology and ethics. 
He received the degree of A. M. from Amherst, in 1879. He has 
published a memoir of our classmate, George Lane Smith, a single 
sermon, a pamphlet upon " The Unity of the Bible," a series of sam- 
ple, inductive " Studies in the Bible " and various contributions to 
Thr. Record^ a bi-monthly organ of Hartford Seminary. He has trav- 
eled in Germany, Holland and Great Britain, besides traversing the 
chief sections of. this country in connection with various appoint- 
ments. 

In December of 1882, he married Emma Gillette Alvord, of 
Torrington, Conn. They have had six children: Raymond Augustus, 
born at Lemars, la., September 21st, 1883; Claude Gillette, born in 
West Springfield, Mass., June 25th, 1888; Lyndon Smith, born in 
Hartford, September 30th, 1889; Ruth, born in Hartford, March 5th, 
1891; Sidney Alvord, born in Hartford, December 20th, 1893, and 
Helen, born February 7th, 1895. 



gxrte %ymXzX ^ettS,— No reply. Latest address, 16 Court 
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



^ICanU g0XOtje^J.— Address, 44 School Street, Westfield, Mass. 

After graduating, he studied theology and spent eight years in 
the work of the ministry. He has since been engaged in business. 
For two years he was superintendent of schools in Eastham, Mass. 

He has traveled extensively in this country and Europe. 

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^XtUnX OTaicU g^^xletX.— Address, State Normal School, 
Bridgewater, Mass. 

After graduation he became a teacher in Chauncy Hall School, 
Boston, 1876-9, when he was appointed teacher of science in the 
State Normal School, which position he has since held, being also 
now Vice-Principal of the school. 

He has pursued special studies with various specialists in Geol- 
ogy, Zoology and Microscopy. 

Of degrees, honors and offices he received the degree of A. M. 
from Amherst, was a member of a special education commission to 
the Island of Jamaica, in 1891, is President of the Trustees of 
Bridgewater Public Library, and has been president or secretary of 
various educational bodies. 

He is a member of various clubs — masonic, educational, religious 
and scientific. He has traveled over much of the eastern part of the 
United States, in geological work, and in the West Indies and the 
Provinces. 

His literary work has been considerable in the line of editing 
and publishing a variety of pamphlets on scientific subjects adapted 
for teachers. 

He was married, October, 1877, to Miss Katharine C. Allen, at 
New Bedford, Mass. He has two children, Ethel Boyden, born 
August 9, 1879, and Edward Allen Boyden, born March 20, 1886. 



'^C^ZOXQZ gUtXdjg. — Address, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

" After graduation I returned to my home in Oxford, N. Y., and 
studied law with my father. Was admitted to the New York bar at 
Albany, in 1878, after which practiced in Oxford until January, 1880, 
when, having been appointed by the Hayes administration to a con- 
sular clerkship, I went to Havre, France. Stayed at Havre until 
December, 1880, except during summer months, when I traveled the 
Continent. Resigned my place after declining appointment as Con- 
sul at Ghent, in Belgium. Had seen all I cared to of the service, 
and enough to convince anyone that it offered no prospect worth 
having. During the year gave some attention to the Civil Law and 

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acquired the French language to the point of being able to pass a 
Montague examination. Returned to Oxford in January, 1881, and 
came here in February, 1881, and have been here ever since prac- 
ticing my profession, with at least reasonable success. In 1883 made 
a business trip to Europe; my travels otherwise have been confined 
to the " States." Was a member of firm of Gleason & Bundy for 
seven years. In 1888 formed a copartnership with Robert M. Mont- 
gomery, and remained with him until he was elected to our Supreme 
Bench and took his seat, January 1, 1892. Since that time have 
been senior member of Bundy & Travis. Engaged in general prac- 
tice, with work largely devoted to banking and corporation matters. 
Have written nothing but briefs and published nothing except rec- 
ords and briefs to be beaten on, or, happy the fact, to win with. 

"Am a member of the Peninsular Club, a regular city club, and 
the Colonial Club, an organization for historical study." 

He was married January 8, 1885, to Mary G. Hollister, of Grand 
Rapids. He has two boys, Nathan H. and Harvey H., the former 
born May 18, 1886, and the latter March 30, 1888. 



^Z^xi 3iXUm ®lxaf f Jeje.— Died July 22d, 1891. 

He was a member of the Connecticut legislature of 1877-8, 
being elected from Westford, Conn., his childhood home. After his 
marriage, in 1880, he settled on a farm in Wapping, Conn., where he 
lived until 1880. At that time he removed to Wethersfield, Conn. 
During his residence there he taught for one year in Windsor, for 
one year in Griswoldville, and for two years in Wethersfield. For 
three and a half years he served as clerk of the warden in Connecticut 
state prison. This position he was compelled to relinquish because 
of failing health. In the hope of recovery he went to Denver, Col., 
in March, 1891, where he died, July 22 of the same year, leaving a 
widow and three sons, who live at Wethersfield, Conn. 

He was married April 2, 1878, to Miss Jennie S. Weldon, at 
Hartford, Conn. He had four children, as follows: Abbie Pitkin, 
born January 8, 1879 — died January 28, 1879; Norman Pitkin, born 
February 1, 1880; Dan Gerrit, born April 15, 1881, and Ralph 
Pease, born July 11, 1882. 

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SeiXSlxatUr gates Ol^ltlXsatX,— Address, Carnegie Hall, New 
York City. 

Immediately after graduation, he studied law in the office of his 
father, the late Haynes Hanford Chilson, at Northampton, Mass., 
and was admitted to the bar in January, 1880. In the latter part of 
that year he removed to Boston and remained there in the practice 
of the law until 1883, when he went to New York city and took up 
the work of journalism. Since that time he has been connected 
with various daily newspapers, including the Tinies^ Worlds Neivs, 
Graphic and Recorder^ having been managing editor of the two 
papers last named. He is at present the proprietor of an agency for 
the general publication of news of ecclesiastical interest, contribut- 
ing to the New York dailies and corresponding with newspapers 
throughout the country. 

He was married to Alice Marion Barrett, daughter of William 
Marshall Barrett, M. D., of Boston, Mass., in New York city. May 
11, 1886. 



©SttXatX gjeWiCg ^XatJll» — Address, Montpelier, Vermont. 

After graduation he studied law and was admitted to practice, 
in which he continued until 1884, when he was elected assistant 
secretary of The National Life Insurance Company, which position 
he has since held. 

He was police justice for several years prior to 1885; is a mem- 
ber of the Apollo and University clubs, of Montpelier. He was 
member of Republican City Committee for about fourteen years; 
is member of the Young Men's Republican Club, of Vermont, and 
its first president. For sixteen years in National Guard, Major 1st 
Infantry; member Military Service Institution, of Governors Is- 
land, N. Y.; Loyal Legion, Sons of the American Revolution, and 
Sons of Veterans, in which he has held various offices, national and 
state. 

Member of State Firemen's Association and its present presi- 
dent; is also member of State Fish and Game League and Mont- 
pelier Gun Club, and clerk of Christ Church Parish, Montpelier. 
His travels have been confined to the United States and Canada. 

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" Since graduation I have worked harder than I wished to, and 
my pleasures have been principally change in kind of work. My 
productive work has interfered, much to my regret, with my taking 
an active interest in other organizations, to membership in which I 
have been elected, outside of my native state." 

He was married November 29, 1882, to Elizabeth Dewitt 
Atkins, at Montpelier, Vt. He has two children, Dewitt, born July 
10, 1886, and Barbara, born September 12, 1889. 



"^MiXXiam "^y^cmsUx OTaie^.— Address, 50 East 31st Street, 
New York City. 

After graduation, he studied medicine at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, New York City. He has been a successful 
physician in New York City since receiving his degree. 

He is a member of the University Club, City Club, Alpha Delta 
Phi Club and Barnard Club in New York City. Has traveled once 
to the Pacific Coast. 

" My life has not been interesting from the standpoint of class 
history — only the humdrum life of a physician." 

Was married October 13, 1887, to Miss Fanny H. Cox, of 
Orange, New Jersey. He has one child, William Evans, born August 
9, 1888. 

%KflbiZXi 3xnC!^ Ol^Xax;!^.— Address, Goshen, N. Y. 

After graduation he studied theology at Union Theological 
Seminary, graduating in 1879. 

Was ordained to the ministry in the Presbyterian Church, and, 
after spending some years in the west, was settled over the Presby- 
terian Church in Goshen, N. Y., where he has had a very successful 
pastorate of about ten years, being an influential and enterprising 
man in the affairs of the community as in his church. 

Was married August 5, 1879, at Plainfield, N. J., to Miss Ade- 
laide R. Clark. He has four children: Clarence Ellsworth, born 
September 1, 1880; Albert Brewster, born August 14, 1882; Marjorie 
May, born February 22, 1885, and Morgan Bruce, born July 16, 1889. 

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^ZOXQZ WiU&Mn&ton ®X0aU. Died November 4, 1879. 

We all lament the brief career of one of the most brilliant and 
promising men of the class. In the autumn following graduation 
from college, he entered the Divinity School of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church, of Philadelphia, from which he was graduated in 1879. 
He was ordained deacon by Rt. Rev. W. B. Stevens, in the Church 
of The Holy Trinity, Philadelphia, and sailed at once for England. 
His health was not robust while in college. Both in college and in 
the seminary, his tendency was to neglect, or to ignore the body in 
his intense intellectual and spiritual life. By foreign residence and 
travel, it was hoped, by his friends, that his failing health might be 
restored. After travel in England, he studied in Germany with K. 
I. Heffern, at Herchen, traveled in Switzerland with Hunter, '76, and 
studied further with Heffern, Hunter and Edward L. Curtis (now 
Professor at Yale), at Oberbonnefeld, Rhine Province, Germany. 

He died in Bonn, Germany, November 4, 1879, and was buried 
in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, Philadelphia. 

A few poems were privately published after his death, by 
Hunter, with which was also given the testimony of a friend, who 
said: "He was the most prominent member of a class of eleven 
which left the West Philadelphia Divinity School in June last; its most 
exact scholar, its clearest thinker, its hardest worker. Indeed, his 
career had been uniformly brilliant, whether as a boy of fourteen 
in the Sunday school, a student in the High School of Philadelphia, 
an undergraduate of Amherst College, or a scholar in the theological 
seminary. He had an insatiable thirst for every kind of knowledge, 
a strong memory which held all its reading at command, and a 
power of expression in forcible language which made him a leader 
in conversation and a perfect master of debate. Perhaps his most 
striking characteristic was his wholeheartedness; whether he studied, 
taught or spoke, he did it with all his might." 



^J^OXQZ ^ZVOion ^XOSB, Address, Exeter, N. H. 

" Immediately after graduation from college I assumed charge 
of the Johnson High School, in North Andover, Mass., in which 
position I continued for five years. 

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" November 29, 1877, I was married to Miss Mary S. Sawyer, 
of Atkinson, N. H. 

" In August, 1881, we removed to Ipswich, Mass., as I had been 
elected principal of the ' Manning School,' a well endowed and pros- 
perous high school in that town. 

"Two years later, in August, 1883, the trustees of the Robinson 
Female Seminary, at Exeter, invited me to become principal of that 
school, and we broke the ties that had begun to bind us to the 
beautiful town of Ipswich and took up our residence in Exeter, N. H. 
I am now prosperously on my fourteenth year as principal of the 
Robinson Seminary. During that time I have seen the number of 
pupils doubled, the corps of teachers increased from eight to thirteen, 
and a beautiful school grown up about me. As principal of the 
school I have weathered many hard storms, but as I look back over 
the years that are gone I am grateful for more than my deserved 
share of sunshine. 

'' In my personal and home life I have been especially blessed. 
Save a few periods of illness of different members, no shadows have 
yet fallen upon our little household. We have two fine stalwart sons. 
April 29, 1879, was born in Atkinson, N. H., our boy Ernest Samuel 
From a beautiful gold lined mug, bearing the legend, 'Amherst '76,' 
he imbibed health, vigor and a love for the associations of ' Old 
Amherst.' He has grown up a good and manly boy. He is at 
present a senior in the Phillips Exeter Academy and next year, God 
willing, the class baby of '76 will be a member of the freshman class 
in Amherst. 

** Our younger boy, Harold Newton, was born in Ipswich, 
August 31, 1881. He is at present a middler in the high school in 
Exeter and a lad in whom we feel confidence and pride. 

" Outside the round of my professional career my life has been 
genial and quiet and devoid of incidents of much interest to my 
classmates. I have given much time to the interests of Freemasonry 
and have received a good many offices and honors at the hands of 
the fraternity, I have ever endeavored to hold up the hands of the 
pastor of our church and for the past five years have served the 
Second Congregational church in Exeter as deacon and clerk. 

" In 1889 I spent several months in travel in England and on 

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the continent, and again in 1894, in company with my wife, I enjoyed 
a summer in southern Europe. 

" The monotony of our school life we annually interrupt by a 
vacation journey or by residence in our summer home in Randolph, 
on the northern side of the White Mountains. 

" In literary labor my life has not been as fruitful perhaps as it 
ought. I have published one small volume on chemistry and hope 
to leave several drawers full of addresses and papers for my execu- 
tors to burn up. ' 

" I have several illustrated lectures of travel and literature which 
the public call for as often as I can spare time from the confining 
duties of my school." 



glxjCltai::;^ WizllS gaXJXiUg.— Residence, 26 Sterling Place, 
Brooklyn, N. Y, Office, 56 Pine Street, New York City. 

Received the degree of LL. B. from the Albany Law School, 
in 1878. Practiced law in Albany, 1878-1882, in Utica, 1882-1893, 
and in New York City since 1893. 

Composed and published a Memorial volume of his father, the 
late Rev. Henry Darling, D.D., LL.D., President of Hamilton College. 

Unmarried. 



glolbrje^t "^dm^Xd gjetXfjel^.— Address, Duluth, Minn. 

After graduation, he began his career in the teaching profession. 
He is now Superintendent of Schools in the city of Duluth. He 
promised a biographical sketch, which has not arrived. 



"^dmUXCi gxjCMtX50IX.— Address, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. 

" I graduated with dreams of gaining influence and honor as a 
journalist, and served a laborious apprenticeship of a year and a half 
on the staff of T/ie Springfield Republican. Finding that the absorb- 
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music, to which I had for years been devoted, I entered the musical 
profession in 1878. I continued organ studies in Boston, and took a 
position as organist and director of music at the Park Church, Elmira, 
N. Y., in 1879. In 1883 I was appointed director of the music de- 
partment of the Elmira College for Women, and held that position 
until 1892, when I was elected to a position in the Oberlin (Ohio) 
Conservatory of Music. I am now Professor of the History and 
Philosophy of Music in Oberlin College and Conservatory, and 
teacher of piano playing in the Conservatory. I have also given 
lectures on church music in the Oberlin Theological Seminary. I 
have published 'A Guide to Musical History and Criticism,' and 
have contributed articles to a number of religious and musical maga- 
zines and papers. 

" I have spent three seasons in Europe — viz.: 1885-6, 1888-9 
and 1892-3, engaged in study and travel, devoting myself especially 
to the study of the history and aesthetics of music. 

"I was married in 1882 to Jennie May Kellogg, of North- 
ampton, Mass." 



'^MiXXiam ^atttoW ^nthZX.—No reply. Last address, 239 
Broadway, New York. 



^oUn WiiniUxop ^iS^e.— No reply. Last address, 140 Nas- 
sau Street, New York. 

Fiske studied law after graduation, was admitted to the bar in 
New York city, where he has practiced ever since. He now makes 
a specialty of " Brief" work. 



^ndXZm KactejCriX d^ejOri^^je*— Address, Brookline, Mass. 

Since graduation, he has been six years principal of Ashland, 
Mass., High School, six years sub-master of the Brookline, Mass., 
High School, and eight years master of the English High School of 

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Newton, Mass. The meanwhile he has been lecturer on English 
Literature in Dr. Gannet's and in the Misses Gilman Private Schools, 
Boston, Mass., and was one year in the Chair of English Literature 
in Boston University, during the absence of Dr. Dorchester in 
Europe. 

He has edited the following English Classics, published by D. 
C. Heath & Co., of Boston, New York and Chicago: 

Wordsworth's Prelude. With Notes. 

Selections from Wordsworth. With Notes. ' 

Wordsworth's Prefaces and Essays on Poetry. With Notes. 

Select Poems of Robert Burns. 

Coleridge's Critical Essays. (From Biographia Literaria.) 
With Notes. 

Burke's Speeches on the American War, and Letter to the 
Sheriffs of Bristol. With Notes. 

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America. With Notes. 

Select Speeches of Daniel Webster. With Notes. 

The Bunker Hill Oration. With Notes. 

Syllabus of English History and Literature. 
He has the following in preparation: 

Wordsworth's Excursion and White Doe of Rylstone. 

Select Poems of Coleridge. 

Tennyson's The Princess. 

The History and Literature of Scotland. 

He is a member of the 20th Century Club, of Boston, and the 
Browning Society. 

Was married July 12, 1888, to Miss Alice Vant, at Milford, 
Mass. He has one child, Robert Hudson, born December 25, 1889. 



^XiUnx "^UXlZVi ^iXttXaU.— Lives at Haverhill, Mass. Is pres- 
ident of the Phillips & Rangeley R. R. 



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"^XKXXU IgXetUrjeXX^rt O^tJjejetXje.— Address, 490 Vanderbilt Avenue, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. Principal Grammar School, No. 9, Van- 
derbilt Avenue and Stirling Place, Brooklyn. 

"I was a teacher in the Adelphi Academy, Brooklyn, 1876-7; in 
charge of senior department, Markham Academy, Milwaukee, Wis., 
1878-9; principal of High School and superintendent of schools, 
Stevens Point, Wis., 1879-82; principal Horn ell Free Academy and 
superintendent of schools, Hornellsville, N. Y., 1882-4; vice-princi- 
pal Grammar School, No. 15, Brooklyn, 1884-7; principal Grammar 
School, No. 40, 1887-95; now principal Grammar School, No 9, one 
of the finest in America, situated adjacent to the main entrance to 
Prospect Park, with sixty teachers and 2,900 pupils. In September 
I shall transfer my senior department to a fine new building across 
the street, now nearing completion, and costing $130,000. When 
this occurs, some twelve teachers and several hundred more pupils 
will be added. 

" Have been a constant student in my own line and a great 
reader always, but have had no time, with my many cares and re- 
sponsibilities, for professional study in its higher reaches, nor for 
travel. Have been invited and urged to engage in editing text books, 
but cannot afford the time and energy." 

Received the degree of A. M. in course, from Amherst, 1879. 

Was married in Brooklyn, February 21, 1878, to Miss E, Clara 
Riidiger, and have been blessed with six children: Max Riidiger, 
born November 24, 1878; Philip Llewellyn, born December 26, 1879; 
Arthur Eugene, born February 5, 1882, died August 21, 1883; 
Hazel, born September 1, 1887; Frank Riidiger, born September 7, 
1889; Edward Fal worth, born April 15, 1892. 



(&ZOXQZ gXTje^Jett OlUxXil.— Address, Scranton, Pa. 

Studied theology at Yale for one year, and two years at Union 
Theological Seminary, New York city. He left before graduation 
and was ordained to the ministry and installed pastor of the First 
Presbyterian Church of Scranton, Pa., in which position he has 

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continued to this day. His studies have been in the line of his 
professional work and such as a busy pastor may engage in. He 
has been honored by the Presbytery and by the city of Scranton by 
public appointments and elections. For nine years he has been 
president of the Scranton Cleric, a club which includes the Pres- 
byterian ministers of Scranton and vicinity. 

He has traveled over much of our own country and spent the 
summer of 1895 traveling in Ireland, Scotland, England and Con- 
tinental Europe. ' 

Several sermons and addresses have been published. 

He was married in April, 1879, to Miss Mary Susan Clark, at 
Northampton, Mass. He has three children: George Clark, age 
15; Burnham Everett, age 12; Gertrude Elizabeth, age 10 years. 



^iXb^Xt gla^ gbawes.— Address, 120 Broadway, New York City. 

He was graduated from Columbia Law School in 1878. In the 
same year was admitted to the bar of New York State, and later to 
practice in the U. S. District and Circuit Courts, and began the 
practice of law in New York city, in which he still continues. His 
specialty is corporation and commercial law. 

He is a member of the following clubs and associations. New 
York State Bar Association, Medico-Legal Society, Society of Medi- 
cal Jurisprudence, New England Society, Delta Kappa Epsilon 
Club, Patria Club, American Institute of Civics, Society of Sons of 
the Revolution, Society of Colonial Wars, Blaine Republican Club, 
Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York Historical Society, 
and Amherst Alumni Association. 

He has traveled somewhat extensively in the United States and 
twice visited Europe, traveling in England, Scotland, Holland, 
Germany and France. 

Various addresses have been published. He has made a 
specialty of genealogical study and last year published a monograph 
on "Edward Hawes, the Emigrant, and Some of His Descendants." 

Received the degree of A. M. in course, from Amherst in 1879. 

Unmarried. 

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^ZOXQZ "^ZXhzxt— Address, St. Paul, Minn. Office of C, St. P., 
M. & O. R. R. Co. 

After graduation he went into the employ of the above railroad 
company, in which he has continued, holding now the position of 
general storekeeper. Herbert writes that his life has been unevent- 
ful and that he presumes he is the " only bachelor left among the 
seventy-six members of our class." 



'^XUnU M^XQZni g^ffttxan.— Address, Union College, Sche- 
nectady, N. Y. 

"After graduating at Amherst, I taught Greek and Latin one year 
in the High School at Princeton, 111., and then studied theology at 
New Haven for four years, being put on the Hooker fellowship. 
1882-'83. I spent abroad, mostly in Berlin and Heidelberg. Then 
was two years instructor in philosophy at Wesleyan University, Mid- 
dletown, Conn., and, since 1885, have been professor of philosophy 
here. My most successful publication is " The Sphere of the State," 
published in 1894. It is now used as a text-book in many colleges, 
and a third edition will soon be called for. I have another work 
nearly ready for the press, entitled "The Sphere of Science," upon 
which I have put far more labor, but the subject is not a popular one. 

" I was married to Miss Jessie B. Lathrop, of New York City, by 
her uncle, Rev. Dr. Robert Russell Booth, in his church on Madison 
Avenue, June 23, 1887. She died in December, 1894, leaving two 
little girls, Emma Louise Booth Hoffman, born July 20, 1888, and 
Grace May Hoffman, born May 13, 1891." 



WiilliKra "^dm'cCXd g^MtojCrjCrU.— Address, 131 North Com- 
mon street, Lynn, Mass. 

After graduation he entered the Harvard Medical School, from 
which he was graduated in the class of 1879. Because of feeble 
health he did not begin practice till the following spring, when he 
located at Three Rivers, Mass., where he remained five years. He 
then removed to Lynn, Mass., where he has since lived, being 

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engaged in the general practice of medicine. He has taken up no 
specialty and does not report any special lines of study. 



g0lXtX 'B^omXctnd,— Address, Guadalajara, Mexico. 

After graduation he taught one year in Leicester, Mass., 
Academy, and the following two years, '77-79 in the High School of 
Danielson, Conn. He entered Hartford Theological Seminary in 
1879, from which he was graduated in 1882. Receiving an appoint- 
ment under the American board he sailed for Mexico, October 5, 
1882. Since that time he has been stationed at Guadalajara, where 
a prosperous work has been maintained. In 1884 he began the pub- 
lication of a paper in Spanish, £1 Tesiigo (The Witness), which is 
still continued and which has been the official organ of the Mexican 
National Society of Christian Endeavor since that society has been 
formed. Mr. Howland is now the president of this society, being 
the missionary who has had the longest residence in that region. 
Howland is generally called "Bishop" by the Roman Catholics. 
The most striking event in Mr. Howland's career as " Bishop of 
Mexico " was the building of his cathedral, a fine church building 
in the very heart of the city. We give the account in Mr. Howland's 
language: "In 1889 we bought a site for a church. It was a small 
block that was left isolated by the opening of streets through old 
church property, it having been itself the offices of the inquisition 
and being situated in front of the finest Romish ' Temple ' of the 
city. As soon as it was known that we held the property every 
means was employed to take it away, condemning it for public uses, 
invalidating our title, etc. After more than a year of negotiation, to 
bring matters to a crisis, work was begun, but was suspended within 
a few hours by the authorities. The city and state authorities went 
against us, but we carried the case up to the supreme court. There 
we secured a decision that was favorable, and as we had a friend 
watching, who telegraphed the result to us, we had forty men at 
work the next morning; and when the certified copy of the decision 
came some six weeks later, the walls were up and we were working 
on the tower, so that our enemies did not care to continue the fight." 

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The class should know that in this fight with the Mexican 
authorities of city and state, Rowland was his own lawyer. By his 
knowledge of Mexican law, tact and perseverance, he won his case 
in a court, the sympathies of whose judges were against him. 

His literary work has been largely confined to the editing of his 
paper. Articles have been prepared for other periodicals and he 
has translated Stalker's '' Life of Christ " into Spanish, which is 
published by the American Tract Society. 

He was married, August 9, 1882, to Miss Sara B. Chollar, of 
Danielson. There have been born to them five children: Her- 
bert, born June 20, 1883, who died July 14, 1883; Bertha, born 
March 1, 1885; Margaret, born April 1, 1887, died August 29, 1889; 
Barbara, born November 14, 1889, and Marion, born January 16, 
1892. 



^UUVXZS "^XUnciS WLuViXViU^ '^XXhh^Xd.— Address, Buffalo 
N. Y. 

He was principal of Woodstock Academy, Woodstock, Conn., 
1876-78. During 1878-81, he studied theology at Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary, Andover, Mass. 1881-82 he continued post- 
graduate study at Andover, and was minister in charge of the First 
Congregational Church of Fall River, Mass. The years 1882-84 
were spent in study at Berlin University in the courses of philology 
and theology, and in travel in England, Germany, Scandinavia, Italy 
and Switzerland. 1884-85 was spent in preaching and private study. 
During 1886-91, he was pastor of the Congregational Church at 
Ellsworth, Maine, and in 1891-95 professor of English Literature 
and French in Centre College, Danville, Ky. In 1895 he became 
editorial assistant of T/ie Assembly Herald, and minister in charge of 
the North Presbyterian Church, Buffalo, N. Y. 

He is a member of the Anaconda Club of Danville, Ky. 

He received the degree of A. M. in course from Amherst in 
1879. 

Unmarried. 



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^KXOn gUiettS l^WtXtjeiC.— Address, Raleigh, N. C. 

He studied theology in Hartford Theological Seminary, 1876-77, 
and in Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1877-79. Was 
graduated there in May, 1879, and, on June 4th, was confirmed in the 
Episcopal Church. 

June 7, 1879, he started for Europe. After travel in Scotland and 
England, he spent several months in a little village of the Rhine Prov- 
ince, studying the German language. 

1879-80, spent two semesters at the University of Berlin. 

Fall of 1880, spent two months in Athens, studying modern 
Greek. 

Then four months traveling in Palestine, Egypt, Italy, Southern 
France, England. 

Arrived in Philadelphia, end of March, 1881. 

April 20, 1881, ordained deacon in Christ Church, Philadelphia. 

Then, one year as assistant to the Rev. W. H. Vibbert, rector of 
St. Luke's Church, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa. 

May 1, 1882, ordained priest in St. Peter's Church, Philadelphia. 

May, 1882, to March, 1884, rector of St. Mary's Church, Hills- 
boro, Ohio. 

Winter of 1884-5, resting in a Colorado ranche. 

Summer of 1885, in charge of St. Andrews' Chapel, Manitou 
Springs, Colorado. 

1885-1886, rector of Emmanuel Church, Denver. 

1885-1888, chaplain of Wolfe Hall, Denver. 

February 6, 1888-June 1, 1891, vice-principal of St. Augustine's 
School, Raleigh, N. C. 

June 1, 1891, to present time, principal of St. Augustine's School, 
Raleigh, N. C. 

He was married January 19, 1888, to Miss Leah Lothrop Taylor 
in the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



S0IXIX '^ViXXfZVi giewjett.— Address, Canandaigua, N. Y. 

Received the degree of M. D. from The College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, New York City, in 1879. He took post-graduate 

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work in Bellevue Hospital and at the DeMilt Dispensary. Returning 
to his home, he began the practice of medicine with his father, to 
whose business he has succeeded. For several years he has had 
medical oversight of the County Orphan Asylum, at Canandaigua, 
and has also had experience in the care of the insane at the Hospi- 
tal for the Insane in the same place. Since 1886 he has been surgeon 
for the Northern Central Railroad. He was also connected with the 
State Board of Health as inspector for the district in which he lives. 

Besides pursuing his professional studies, he has been active in 
organizing and keeping up a scientific association. He has also kept 
up the study of botany since leaving college. 

Was married January 3, 1884, to Miss Kezzie S. Buel, at East 
Bloomfield, N. Y. He has two children, Mary Dixon, born January 
28, 1885, and Charles Harvey, born May 28, 1888. 



S^jeixr^ "^OpUinS ^jeXSJeiJ.— Address, 108 Ann Street, Hartford, 
Conn. 

He studied theology in Hartford Theological Seminary, Hart- 
ford, Conn., where he was graduated in May, 1879. At graduation 
he was elected instructor in voice building and elocution and assist- 
ant librarian in Hartford Seminary, which position he held until May, 
1882. The years 1882-83 were spent in Boston, he being the assist- 
ant to Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., in Shawmut Congregational Church. 

September 10th, 1884, he was ordained to the ministry and in- 
stalled pastor of the Second Congregational Church, West Winsted, 
Conn., where he remained until July, 1888. September 21st, 1888, 
he was installed pastor of the Fourth Congregational Church, Hart- 
ford, Conn. 

He has traveled very little, none outside of our own country, 
and his studies have been all in the lines required in a busy pastorate. 
In 1895 he was elected a trustee of Hartford Theological Seminary. 

For seven years he has been Chaplain of the First Regiment, 
Connecticut National Guard. He was two years President of the 
Connecticut Christian Endeavor Union, and for a number of years 
he has been a Director of the Hosmer Hall Choral Union. He is 

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also one of the Alumni Lecturers in Hartford Theological Semi- 
nary, his subject being, " The Institutional Church." 

His only publications have been occasional sermons and ad- 
dresses. 

The degree of A. M. in course was received from Amherst in 
1879. 

He is a member of the 20th Century Club, Hartford. 

Was married November 22, 1892, to Miss Alice W. Miller, at 
Grand Rapids, Michigan, ' 



^XUVih ^aiCttltam ^imteXl— Died March 22, 1896. 

After leaving college, his health so far failed that a voyage to 
the Azores was taken. Returning somewhat benefited, he under- 
took the study of law, but his eyes failing, this desire had to be given 
up. A position was then taken in a dry goods house in Chicago, 
from which he went into the employ of R. H. White, in Boston, in 
which he continued until 1885. At this time a position was secured 
in the Morris Building Co., a corporation controlled by Mr. Charles 
Pratt, of Brooklyn. This work he was obliged to relinquish in 1891, 
because of a severe sickness with the grip, from which he never 
wholly recovered. The last three years of his life were years of in- 
validism and great suffering. 

He was a man of sterling character, fond of study and reading, 
to whom it was a bitter disappointment that he was compelled to 
give up his cherished professional career. 

He was married in February, 1891, to Miss Whitehouse, who 
now resides at 1128 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, N, Y. 



"^dxo^Xd "^OO^iZX ^rtigM. — Address, 47 Clarendon Street, 
Springfield, Mass. 

After graduation at Amherst, he taught one year at Williston 
Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. He then gave five years to study: 
three years at Hartford Theological Seminary, graduating in 1880; 

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one year at Princeton Theological Seminary, and one year in Ger- 
many, chiefly at Berlin University. July 25, 1883, he was ordained 
to the ministry and installed pastor of the Park Street Congre- 
gational Church, West Springfield, Mass., where he remained till 
October 1, 1892. At that time he accepted the position he now 
holds, as instructor in the Biblical course in the School for Christian 
Workers, Springfield, Mass. He received the degree of A. M. in 
course from Amherst in 1879. 

Was married, October 24, 1883, to Miss Mattie L. Gates, of 
East Hartland, Conn. Has three children: Avis, born October 25, 
1885; Edith, born April 3, 1890; Marian Ethel, born December 19, 
1891. 



"^dWcCXlSi '^UXiZX JpCai;:sTx.— Residence, Lexington, Mass. Busi- 
ness address, 19 Federal street, Boston, Mass. 

During the fall and winter of 1876-7 he remained in Amherst, 
holding the position of clerk to the college treasurer, which position 
he had held during the last three years of his college course. Dur- 
ing the spring term of 1877 he was assistant in Monson Academy, 
Monson, Mass. In 1877-8 he taught Latin and Greek in the Con- 
necticut Literary Institute, Suffield, Conn. During the year 1878-9 
he was principal of the High School, Amherst, Mass. 1879-80 he 
was a student in Rochester Theological Seminary, Rochester, N. Y. 
In 1880 he returned to Amherst and filled the following positions: 
1880-1895, registrar Amherst College and clerk of the treasurer; 
1880-1885, assistant librarian; 1880-1883, assistant instructor in 
Latin. 

In November, 1895, Mr. Marsh resigned from his college posi- 
tion and went into the business of selling builders' specialties, in 
Boston, removing his family to Lexington, in May, 1896. In June, 
1896, he received a patent for a metallic corner bead in plastering, 
which has been widely adopted and promises to be a success. 

August 10th, 1881, he was married to Miss Emma Russell Wig- 
gin, of Exeter, N. H. They have two children, Clarence Edward, 
born June 27, 1882, and Arthur Brigham, born June 15, 1885. 

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^iXtjCrtX glca^tOtX StjC^tXijgfM,— Address, Reading, Pa. 

After graduation, he studied law and was admitted to the bar 
of Berks County, Pa., in the autumn of 1878, and practiced for a 
time in Reading. In 1879, he went to Colorado, and was admitted 
to the bar there, but did not practice. He returned to Reading in 
1880, and, in 1881, becoming interested in the iron business, drifted 
out of the practice of law. He started the Penn Stove Works, and 
since that time has been its secretary and treasurer. He is also 
president of The Millholland Tube Company, of Reading, and is 
interested in several other industries and railroad corporations. 

His travels have been limited to this country, east of the Rocky 
Mountains. 

He is a member of the Manufacturers Club and of the Uni- 
versity Club of Philadelphia, and of the Wyomissing Club of 
Reading. 

Was married in December, 1880, to Miss Ida May Geise, of 
Reading, Pa., who died in January, 1883. 



gljCrlbtjeiCt ^00atX ^attjOftX.— No reply. Last address, Morganton, 
N. C. 



%Ohi^Xi WiZ&ion Ration.— Business address, 211 Madison 
Street, Chicago, 111. : Residence, Highland Park, 111. 

" After graduation, I commenced my business career as a bill 
clerk in the wholesale drug firm of Fuller & Fuller, Chicago, the 
leading one in the city, remaining there, however, only a few months. 
I then took a position with the largest hardware house in the west, 
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co., beginning at the bottom of the 
ladder, or, as I thought then, one or two rounds below the bottom. 
The magnificent salary of $5.00 a week was deemed about the value 
of my college training in hardware, and to live off this proved a 
more difficult mathematical problem than any Prof. Esty ever gave 

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me. His could be solved, if you only knew how — mine couldn't. I 
remained with the house about five years, passing through various 
positions of city buyer, traveling salesman, etc., and finally gave up 
a good position there to take a six months' European tour, in 1882. 
During these five years, I roomed with ' Billy ' Williams, '76. 

" On my return from abroad, I went into a company for the 
manufacture of gasoline stoves, and did well for several years. In- 
ternal dissensions in the company then made a change desirable and 
I sold out my interests and took up, with a friend, the manufacture 
of watch cases. It was found impossible to make this business profit- 
able, in competition with concerns controlling millions of capital, 
and, a convenient capitalist coming along at that time, it was con- 
cluded that discretion was the better part of valor, and as his offer 
to purchase was a good one, we accepted it — and went fishing. 

'' I then had an opportunity to purchase the subscription depart- 
ment of an old publishing house here, and organized, some seven years 
ago, The Star Publishing Co., becoming its president and owner. We 
have done, chiefly, a subscription book business, but have also done 
some general book publishing. This business I am now in, and in- 
tend to remain in. In addition to the book business, I have also 
interested myself considerably in the manufacture of the Czar 
Bicycle. 

" I have studied nothing since graduation, except how to make 
both ends meet and have a little over, and have not yet taken my 
degree in this branch. My chief honor has been to be a graduate of 
Amherst College, in the class of '76, and to have in training three 
boys for the class of 1906 and following years. 

" I am a member of the Union League Club, the Congregational 
Club, and various smaller organizations. 

" I never published a book of my own, thinking it much safer 
and more profitable to publish some one else's." 

Was married in 1888 to Miss Ellie H. Ferry, of Chicago. He 
has three children: William Weston, born March 15, 1889; Hamilton, 
born October 21, 1891; Robert Ferry, born February 27, 1896. 



iznXVi gauXXilX.— Address unknown. 

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^ZOICQZ ^XiUnX gXxtrc:pdtXirtX,— Address, 70 Fifth Avenue, New 
York City. 

After graduation he studied one year at Harvard Law School. 
In 1877 he entered the employ of Ginn and Heath, publishers, and 
was soon admitted to the firm. Upon its dissolution he became 
a prominent member of the new firm of Ginn & Co., of New York, 
publishers of school books, English classics for schools and general 
literature. 

He was trustee of Amherst College 1889-95, and is at present 
trustee and treasurer of Barnard College, manager of the New York 
State Colonization Society, and trustee of the First Presbyterian 
Church, New York city. 

He is a member of the University, Grolier, Century and Bar- 
nard Clubs of New York. 

He has been to Europe five times. 

During these years of the study of and the publication of school 
text books, Mr. Plimpton has gathered a large library of school 
text books, of which he gives the following account: 

" In regard to my library, I will simply say that what I have 
attempted to do is to illustrate the growth of education from the 
text-book standpoint. 

" For instance, take the subject of arithmetic. The library con- 
tains a MS. on arithmetic which was written in 1424; also, the oldest 
arithmetic in the world, printed by Foust & Schaeffer, or possibly 
Guttenberg, in 1460. The famous Treviso arithmetic, printed in 
1478, and the oldest arithmetic in the world with any date on it, is 
also in this collection. The library contains a copy of the oldest 
arithmetic in the British Museum, 1491, and various editions of 
Recorde's Ground of Arts, which is the first arithmetic printed in 
the English language, down to about 1700. Cocker's Arithmetic is 
in the library, and, in fact, all the principal books on arithmeti 
down to the present time. 

"There is also the first geometry ever printed (1482), and a 
copy of the first algebra printed. 

" In the subject of reading are three original horn-books, which 
is probably more than are together in any other one place in the 

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world. There is a complete collection of primers, including a Henry 
the Vlllth A-B-C book and a Martin Luther A-B-C book. 

*' In this library are the first rhetoric and the first logic ever 
printed in the English language. 

'* There are two manuscripts in Latin grammar, one by Priscian 
about the fourteenth century, and the other of a much earlier date; 
also the first Latin grammar printed in Germany, by Philip 
Melancthon. 

" The library contains an extensive collection of early writing 
books, the earliest being 1513; and all the famous English gram- 
mars. 

*'In geography also the library is complete, beginning with 
Strabo and Ptolemy and continuing down to the present time. 

" There is an interesting collection of teachers' books, including 
the first edition of Roger Ascham's Schoolmaster, printed in 1570." 

Plimpton was married October 6, 1892, at Holyoke, Mass., to 
Miss Frances Taylor Pearsons. 



^XiUux ^MXion ^OWJeXX.— Address, No. 709 Park Avenue, 
Baltimore. 

After graduation he spent one year of study in Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary and the two following years in the Philadelphia 
school, where he received the degree of B. D., in 1879. The same 
year he received the degree of M. A. from Amherst. He was 
ordained deacon in the P. E. Church, at Philadelphia, June 19th, 
1879. The summer of that year he spent in Europe. In the autumn 
of 1879 he entered upon the rectorship of the Church of the Atone- 
ment, Riverside, Cincinnati. On May 13th, 1883, he was ordained 
priest, at Dayton, Ohio, after which he remained two years and a 
half in Cincinnati, when he was called to St. John's Church, York, 
Penn., a prominent parish in the diocese of central Pennsylvania. 
In addition to this position he served for two years as Dean of the 
Convocation of Harrisburg. In 1888, Mr, Powell took the rector- 
ship of Grace Church, Baltimore, one of the most important 

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churches in the denomination. Here he has two assistants. In 
1890 a chapel costing $10,000 was erected by Grace Church among 
the working classes in South Baltimore, where a vigorous work is 
carried on. More recently the chancel of the church has been 
enlarged at a cost of $22,000 and several costly memorials added. 
The church, with the chapel, has a membership of about 1,200. During 
Mr. Powell's ministry, several sermons have been published at vari- 
ous times. He is a member of the University Club of Baltimore, 
and vice-president of the Baltimore Amherst Alumni Association. 

Mr. Powell was married September 28, 1882, in Columbus, O., 
to Miss Helen Buttles Hardy. They have had three sons, all of 
whom are now living: George Hardy, born December 8th, 1883; 
Chilton Latham, born October 28th, 1885; and Paul Rulison, born 
August 2, 1887. 



^miQJxi ^uXlOXVi ^ratt»— Address, Portland, Me. 

After leaving Amherst he pursued the regular course of study 
in Hartford Theological Seminary, graduating in 1880. On De- 
cember 16, 1880, he was ordained and installed over the Congrega- 
tional Church in Higganum, Ct., where he remained eight years, 
guiding the church through revivals of quite unusual power to a 
marked financial and spiritual prosperity. In 1888 he removed to 
Pueblo, Colorado, where he took charge of the New Pilgrim Church 
for two years, adding nearly one hundred persons to the member- 
ship, and securing an edifice and property costing $23,000. In 1890, 
Mr. Pratt began his present pastorate over the Williston Church, in 
Portland, Me. During these six years of service this church has 
grown from the position of sixth in size in the state to the second, 
the accessions during the past year having been the largest in the 
history of the church. He has received the degree of A. M. from 
Amherst. Is president of the Portland Congregational Club. Is 
member of the Chi Alpha, a ministerial organization in Portland. He 
has been a frequent contributor to the religious press, his published 
articles numbering between two and three hundred. In 1891 he 
published "A Decade of Christian Endeavor," a volume of nearly 

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200 pages, the first history of the Christian Endeavor movement in 
book form. 

In October, 1882, he married Miss Martha Augusta Rood, 
daughter of Rev. Thomas W. Rood, of Westfield, Mass. They have 
had four children: Marion Rood, born March 22, 1884; Mabel 
Harriet, born December 2, 1886; Dwight Harold, born March 5, 
1892, and Katharine Williston, born January 29. 1896. 



After graduation, Proudman was employed in newspaper work, 
serving faithfully several years on one of the daily papers of Meri- 
den. Conn. He married and had a pleasant home, where he was 
visited by some of his classmates. About ten years ago his health 
failed, and after a struggle of a year or so with consumption, died. 



©IxaicXjeS "^IUQUuVX gletaftXjOrXdS.— No reply. Latest address, 
318 Broadway, New York. 

After graduation, he began the study of theology at Union 
Theological Seminary. He left during the course to engage in busi- 
ness. He has been, for a number of years, editor of T/ie Forest and 
Stream^ New York city. 



(^\iXiX\ZZ %ZUX^ glix^UjettS.— Now living in Somers, Conn. 

Upon leaving Amherst he entered Yale Divinity School. During 
the three years spent here he was for a time private tutor in Latin and 
English of students for the undergraduate department, for a summer 
in charge of churches in Maine, and for a portion of senior year 
stated supply of church in Bethany, Conn. For nearly a year after 
graduation from Yale, he pursued the study of German rationalism. 
In October, 1880, he was called to the Congregational Church in 

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Thorndike, Mass., where he was ordained October 28th, of the same 
year. In 1884 he was called to the First Congregational Church of 
Rockville, Conn., where he remained until 1888, when the First and 
Second Churches of that city consolidated into the Union Church, in 
which he served as acting pastor for ten months. In November, 
1890, he removed to his present home as pastor of the Congregational 
Church. 

Mr. Ricketts has been interested in problems of secular educa- 
tion, having been chairman of the school board of Palmer, 1885^-84, 
and being at present chairman of school board of Somers, and presi- 
dent of the board of directors of Whitney Fur Library in that town. 
During August and September, 1893, he was special correspondent 
of The Springfield Union, at the World's Fair. He helped organize 
the Connecticut Valley Congregational Club, in Springfield, in 1882, 
and is at present a member of the Connecticut Congregational Club, 
of Hartford, Conn. In 1894 he made a Raymond and Whitcomb ex- 
cursion through the northern belt of the United States. In 1895 he 
made an extended tour through Great Britain and the Continent, 
paying special attention to the European industrial systems. Since 
graduation his special study has been in the fields of theology and 
church history, and the particular topic of German agnosticism. He 
has published a discourse upon the fiftieth anniversary of the First 
Congregational Church of Rockville, Conn,; a discourse upon the 
rededication of the church in Somers, Conn., and numerous sermons 
and other articles in newspaper and magazine form. 

Mr. Ricketts married Verrena Fearnaught Synyer, November 
24th, 1885, in Rockville, Conn, They have had four children: Wayne 
Bradford, born July 4th, 1887, who died in infancy; Paul Stevens, 
born January 7th, 1890; Jay Synyer, born May 28th, 1892, and Kirk 
Fletcher, born December 17th, 1894. 



^ICatxMxtX glx:prXje^,— Now living in Troy, New Hampshire, 
where he is engaged in manufacture as superintendent of 
the Troy Blanket Mills. 

He was married September 8th, 1880, to Miss Clara I. Keyes, at 

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Keene, N. H. They have five children: John B., born September 
13, 1881; Franklin, Jr., born December 5, 1882; Elizabeth, born 
February 16th, 1884; Mary S., born June 23rd, 1886, and George 
K., born May 8th, 1893. 



g^eiCjbfjevt '^. ^atXJCljeiCSjCrtX,— Address, Walpole, Mass. 

After leaving Amherst, he was for two years connected with T^e 
Springfield Daily Union. In November of 1878, he joined Edward 
H. Phelps in the purchase of the New England Homestead^ pub- 
lished in Springfield, Mass. Under their management, the Spring- 
field Edition was started, and soon made the society paper of the 
city and surrounding towns. In March, 1880, they started the 
Farm and Home. In November, 1880, Mr. Sanderson withdrew 
from the firm and went to New York to engage as selling agent for 
silk manufacturers, Streeter & Mayhew, where he remained until 
1891. Loss of health then compelled him to leave this position and 
settle in the lumber business in Pennsylvania. For two years he 
was occupied in school-book work in Pennsylvania, under Ginn & 
Company. In 1895, he was elected treasurer of the Lewis Batting 
Company, of Walpole, Mass. In 1894, he represented Pike county 
in the Republican State Convention at Harrisburg, Penn. 

Mr. Sanderson was married April 5th, 1877, to Miss Florence 
P. Carruth, of North Brookfield, Mass. They have one child, 
Herbert Henry, born September 30th, 1886. Ethel Carruth was 
born September 27th, 1884, and died September 30th, 1885. 



CH^telcXjeS IfuttXanx ^jeax^tje.— Address of office, 53 State Street, 
Boston, Mass. Residence, 280 Commonwealth Avenue. 

After graduation, he studied law at Washington, D. C, in the 
National Law School and in the office of a Boston lawyer, and has 
practiced law in Boston since 1884. He was in the State Depart- 
ment at Washington with Hon. Wm. M. Evarts, and also connected 

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with the legal department of the Customs Revenue Service, at 
Boston, for a few years, and, when first admitted to the bar, had for 
several years a large income from the prosecution of customs revenue 
law, and in this way acquired an acquaintance with the leading im- 
porting houses in Boston. Of late years he has drifted into general 
practice. In 1890, he was appointed receiver of a large corporation, 
conducted the business for several years, and, in 1896, received his 
discharge, having paid all creditors in full and $100 per share to the 
stockholders, a record never equaled in Massachusetts. He is 'now 
active in the litigation of two railroad receiverships, which offer 
ample opportunity for professional work and promise substantial 
compensation for services rendered. 

He is a member of a large number of clubs and professional 
organizations: Member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the 
United States and the United States Circuit Court, and of the Su- 
preme Judicial Court of Massachusetts; member of the Boston Bar 
Association and life member of the Social Law Library, and the 
Boston Young Men's Christian Union; one of the original one hun- 
dred who signed the call which resulted in the Young Men's Repub- 
lican Club of Massachusetts. He is a member of the Algonquin 
Club, University Club, Athletic Club, Exchange Club, Commodore 
Club and Boston Chamber of Commerce; is a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Military Historical Society and the Veteran Corps of Cadets. 
He has traveled extensively in this country and Europe. 

He was married in 1885 to Cora Hogg, of Boston, and they have 
four children: John Endicott, born October 1, 1885; Charles Put- 
nam, Jr., born November 5, 1889; Richard Whiting, born July 8, 
1891, and Corinna, born April 5, 1895. 



^UUXXZS gjeg05JS ^jejeXaaf.— Address, Brockport, N. Y. 

He has been continuously engaged in teaching since graduation 
from Amherst. For two years he taught Latin and Greek in his 
native town, Warsaw, N. Y. Then for seven years he taught suc- 
cessively in the position of principal at Medway, Mass.; Greenfield, 
Mass.; Arms Academy, Shelburne Falls, Mass, and Newburyport, 
Mass. From the latter place he was elected, in 1885, to his present 

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position in charge of the Latin and Greek department in the State 
Normal School, in Brockport, N. Y. He received the degree of A. 
M. in course from Amherst, in 1879. 

He married Susan L. Warner, at Cummington, Mass., in 1882. 
They have had three children: Bertha W., born September 19th, 
1883; Evelyn E., born June 9th, 1888; Charles W., born November 
25th, 1894. 



^X^XdLni^ZX gatta ^ttXXtlX.— Address, Toledo, Ohio. 

Following graduation he taught for two years in the High 
School in his native city, Columbus, Ohio. In the summer of 1878 
he went to Germany, where, in October, he entered the University of 
Berlin to pursue studies in the department of history and constitu- 
tional development. In the spring of 1879 he spent one term in 
Heidelberg University. During this stay in Germany he was inti- 
mately associated in fellowship and study with our classmate, C. R. 
Bateman. Being obliged to return home in the summer of 1879, he 
resumed his position in Columbus High School, where he remained 
until the spring of 1881, pursuing meanwhile a course of reading 
and study looking toward the practice of the law. In 1881, six 
months were spent in travel abroad. Returning in October of that 
year, he went immediately to Toledo, where he was admitted to the 
practice of law by the Supreme Court of Ohio, in January, 1882. 
Here he entered upon his practice, forming a partnership with his 
uncle, Hon. John R. Osborne. Since 1891, when Mr. Osborne re- 
tired from active life, Mr. Smith has been practicing alone. Until 
this date he was assistant of his uncle in the office of general attorney 
for Ohio for the Wabash R. R. Company. Since 1891, he has held 
the position of general attorney himself. In May, 1892, he was 
appointed general counsel for the Toledo, Ann Arbor and North 
Michigan R. R. Company, which position he still holds. At the 
same time he attends to the general practice of law. After having 
fairly entered upon preparation for legal practice, president Seelye 
proffered him an instructorship in Amherst. His life, he says, has 
been '' in the main, quiet and uneventful," its exigencies checking 

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the development of "certain dreamy and speculative tendencies," 
and giving "a more wholesome and sensible view of men and 
things." 

In 1885, he was married to Alice C. Doolittle, daughter of Gen. 
Chas. C. Doolittle, of Toledo, They have had four children: Arthur 
Osborne, born October 13th, 1886, died April 13th, 1888; Donald 
Parsons, born November 14th, 1888; Emily Corinne, born August 
26th, 1891, and Elizabeth Doolittle, born December 31st, 1893. 



®lxaicXjeS ^ttXitlX, ^X.—Ue now signs his name C. Van T. Smith. 
Address, 307 Hennapin Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn. 

After graduation, he read law and was admitted to the bar of 
New York in 1877. He taught from 1878 to 1887, in Philadelphia, 
Pa., Hudson, Poughkeepsie, Amsterdam and Rochester, N. Y. 
From the fall of 1887 to 1892, he traveled for the sale of law books, 
when he went into the gents' tailoring business in Minneapolis, 
Minn., in which he has since been engaged. 

He was married soon after graduating. His wife died in 1888. 
Has no children. In closing his letter. Smith says: " I am the same 
" Big " I was in college days, and feel as young as then and as fresh 
as a daisy." 



3g;dw:raiCJCt gl0MrcS0U ^mitlX.— No reply. Living in New York 
city, where he is connected with the Avery Library, Col- 
umbia College. Latest address, 47 Clinton Place, New 
York. 



(f^^CXQZ garcje .^mittt.— Died February 6, 1886. 

For the two years following graduation this brother stood at the 
head of the Amherst High School, where he did most acceptable and 
creditable work. The school year of 1878-79 was spent in study in 

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the Hartford Theological Seminary. In the autumn of 1879 he 
entered Andover Seminary for further study. Here, during the 
winter, he began to fear for his health, and early in 1880 a series of 
pathetic wanderings in a vain search for health began. In August 
of that year he was at Colorado Springs, where he finally relinquished 
the hope of completing his studies, or even continuing his residence 
in the east. He gave himself to various forms of instruction, giving 
a portion of his time to Colorado College. In July of 1881, he took 
up home mission work for a time in Rock Springs, Wyoming. Into 
this work he threw his whole soul and gained ordination to the Chris- 
tian ministry October 5th, 1881. By his efforts a church building 
was erected, and dedicated October 1st, 1882. But in February, 
1883, it became clear that the climate was poorly adapted to his 
case, and he removed to Riverside, in southern California. He re- 
mained here less than two years, when his disease drove him into 
Arizona, where it was hoped that the combination of a high altitude 
and a mild, dry climate would prove to be the long sought means of 
staying his malady. Here he preached to some extent in Prescott, 
aided in the oversight of a mine, and engaged in stock-raising upon 
a ranch in turn. But consumption was making rapid ravage, and in 
January, 1886, he was forced in great feebleness to take refuge in 
Prescott, where he died February 6th, 1886. By a kind Providence, 
mediated by Mr. Smith's own foresight, his classmate, C. S. Beardslee, 
who was living his near neighbor at his death, was able to minister 
at his bedside, and to conduct by his remains the service of Christian 
burial. It gives him deep pleasure to attest the rare beauty and 
ripeness of this brother's closing life. His post-graduate career was 
shut within the brief limits of a single decade. But the sharp disci- 
pline of those swift days developed a character of surpassing perfec- 
tion and charm. At sight of his aspirations and defeats, his fine 
equipment and failing strength, his keen eye surveying the fields and 
his quiet heart in the presence of God, his passion for life and his 
patience in death, it is hard to tell whether pity or admiration holds 
chief place. 

He married, at the beginning of his work in Wyoming, Mary 
Lyman, of Amherst, Mass., October 26th, 1881. They had one child 
Ethel, who, with her mother, lives in Riverside, Cal. 

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A brief memoir of Mr, Smith, prepared by Mr, Beardslee, was 
published in 1886. 

g0txn g» M^ncMwU.—^o reply. Lives at his old home, 
Elmira, N, Y, He is a member of the law firm of Rey- 
nolds, Stanchfield & Collin, 



guXiUS ^taiCVJett.— No reply. Lives in Chicago, 111. Is a 
lawyer. 

WixnfXX^ ^X;^jetX ^tjeaiCtXJS.— Address, Atlanta University, 
Atlanta, Ga., where he has been associated with the corps 
of instruction. 

In spite of unusual suffering and disappointments, Stearns has 
accomplished much in the line of his favorite study, in natural 
science, and has done good work by his teaching in various institu- 
tions. Much of his work has been original, and he has published 
the following books: 

"New England Bird Life," 2 vols.; "Fauna and Flora of 
Labrador," 2 vols.; "Wrecked off Labrador," a story for boys; a 
Text Book of Ornithology, and other volumes, the titles of which 
we cannot give. 

He has also contributed articles for many scientific periodicals. 
He is now at work on a book upon the birds of the south. 



"^ICiXXiam ^^XdvozXX JtjetrjetXS.— No reply. Graduated from 
a medical school and has since practiced medicine in Wor- 
cester, Mass., making throat diseases a specialty. 



"gXi^dZXiC % Jt01cUje,~Address, Auburn, N. Y. 

He was admitted to the bar in October of 1879, since which 
time he has been in continuous practice of the law. He is now a 
member of the law firm of Underwood, Storke & Seward, of Auburn. 
He was elected to the board of education, of Auburn, in May, 1895, 

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since which time he has been kept in continuous service upon that 
board by three re-elections, his present term expiring in May, 1897. 
He is a member of the City Club, of Auburn. 

He was married February 15, 1882, to Katharine S. Davie. 
They have had five children: Paul Davie, born January 12, 1883; 
Alan Marshall, born September 27, 1884; Harold Grey, born Febru- 
ary 2, 1890; Frederic Putnam, born January 21, 1892, and Arthur 
Ditchfield, born May 21, 1894. 



^ZOVQZ '^aniUQUZ ^XXrift.— Present address, 29 East 31st 
Street, New York— after May 1, 1897, 20 West 55th 
Street. 

In the autumn of 1876, he entered the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, New York, and graduated with the degree of M. D. 
in 1879. On October 1, 1879, he entered Bellevue Hospital as assist- 
ant house physician. From October 1, 1880, to April 1, 1881, he 
held the position of house physician. Following this period, he 
studied abroad in Brunswick, Vienna and Prague, until March, 1882, 
then he returned to New York and became resident physician of the 
New York Foundling Asylum. May 1, 1883, he began private prac- 
tice as associate of Dr. Henry F. Walker, in whose partnership he 
has since remained. Since 1886, he has been visiting physician to 
St. Mary's Free Hospital for children. He is a member of the Cen- 
tury Association. He has published an occasional medical paper. 

He was married June 1, 1887, to Miss Bessie P. Ely, of Brook- 
lyn. They have had four children: Elizabeth, born June 24, 1888; 
Mariam, born August 2, 1889; Nathalie, born April 7, 1892, and 
Walker Ely, born January 7, 1894. 



WiiXlium 3. MVihXUnidit— Address, 101 Hoosick Street, Troy, 

N. Y. 

After graduation from Amherst, he spent one year in Yale 
Divinity School and two years in Hartford Theological Seminary 
where he graduated in 1879. On June 11, 1879, he was ordained 

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and installed as pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church, Boston, 
Mass., where he remained until March, 1882. He then removed to 
the Oakwood Avenue Presbyterian Church, of Troy, N. Y., where he 
is now passing his fifteenth year of continuous service. In his con- 
nection with the Presbyterian Church he has served, at various times, 
as delegate to its higher courts and in the chairmanship of various 
committees. He has mingled in some stirring scenes in the politics 
that have made Troy famous, serving as watcher at the polls, as 
deputy sheriff for a term of three days, and, after the murder of 
Robert Ross, who was a member of Mr. Sybrandt's church, he served 
on the committee of safety, composed of one hundred men and car- 
rying terror to evil-doers. In the same connection he aided in the 
preparation of the little book, "A Martyr of To-day," being the life 
of Robert Ross. Since 1884, he has been a member of the K. E. 
Club, composed of ministers who meet monthly during nine months 
of the year. Mr. Sybrandt was in the wreck upon the Old Colony 
Railroad, near Quincy, Mass., August 19, 1890. He was in a car in 
which many were killed, and escaped by jumping through a window. 
Within the past two years he has bought two farms about thirty-five 
miles away from Troy, where he quite often spends his Mondays, 
sometimes going the whole distance by bicycle. Though scorning 
to ** scorch" or "coast," he has been known to cover the whole dis- 
tance in three hours and forty-eight minutes. The outlook for his 
church seems unusually promising, because of improved facilities for 
travel and increase of population in its neighborhood, bringing him 
increased audiences. 

He was married in Amherst, May 14, 1879, to Anna Louise 
Leland. They have had five children: Bertha Louise, born Novem- 
ber 1, 1880; Martha Leland, born April 9, 1882; Edith Eliza, born 
November 1, 1883, and died April 30, 1885; John Leland, born 
March 5, 1885, and Marion Anna, born September 9, 1889. 



'^miXXxam gxrjes WL^sWomxn.—Uvmg in New York. Ofhce, 
80 Broadway. 

After graduation he studied law at Columbia College Law 
School. He was admitted to the bar in 1878. He has the degrees 

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of A. M. from Amherst and LL. B. from Columbia. He is a mem- 
ber of the Century Association, the Alpha Delta Phi Club, the Patria 
Club, the Congregational Club of New York City, etc. He is also a 
member of the board of trustees of Hartford Theological Seminary. 
Since 1885 he has been an influential member of the executive com- 
mittee of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, and since 
1890 has been its chairman. He was for two years president of the 
Manhattan Conference of Congregational Churches, and is now serv- 
ing as chairman of the new work committee of the Congregational 
Church Extension Society, of New York and Brooklyn. 

He was married November 15th, 1883, in New York, to Carrie 
Woodruff Fisher. They have had three children: Grace Ives, born 
September 13th, 1884; William Ives, Jr., born May 24th, 1887, and 
Nathalie Fisher, born May 27th, 1895, died December 15th, 1895. 



WLzXliUQion W:Mtje — Died July 27, 1891. 

After graduation, a year was spent in the Normal School at 
Bloomsburg, Pa., teaching mathematics and the languages. He 
then spent three years in Union Theological Seminary, New York 
city, graduating in 1880. He was ordained to the Presbyterian 
ministry soon after in Owego. He at once prepared for his work in 
the Chinese mission field, and sailed from San Francisco, November, 
1880, reaching Canton, the following month. In his work upon 
the field he was engaged in evangelistic tours in the interior of 
Kwang Tung Province, or in teaching in the Theological Seminary 
at Canton. For some years he had charge of about ten stations 
south of Canton, all of which he visited four times each year, con- 
suming six weeks or more on each trip. In 1888, he went with 
Rev. F. P. Oilman upon a foot tour through a part of Kwang Tung 
and Hainan Provinces, where no missionary or foreigner had ever 
traveled, covering over one hundred and fifty miles. While at his 
home in Macao he was much engaged upon the work of translation, 
writing several books in Chinese. He took particular interest in a 
translation of a *' Harmony of the Four Gospels." 

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He was married in New York, October 6th, 1880, to Mary 
Andross Martin. They had three children: Lillian, born in Can- 
ton, November 28th, 1881, died with her father in a railroad disaster, 
July 27th, 1891; Mabel, born in Canton, January 21st, 1884; Mary, 
born in Macao, November 13th, 1888, died April 1, 1892, from 
injuries received at the time of her father's death. Mr. White left 
China with his family in 1890 for the usual missionary's furlough of 
a year in this country. They returned via Singapore, Penang, 
Colombo, Suez Canal, Marseilles, Paris, London, Edinburgh 'and 
Glasgow. He was at our fifteenth reunion in 1891. On July 1st, of 
that year, he went with his family to his parents' home in Elmira, 
where he remained until the terrible accident that caused his imme- 
diate death. He was riding with his entire family and a nurse when 
his carriage was struck by a train at a N. Y. & Lake Erie R. R. 
crossing, killing himself and his oldest daughter instantly, fatally 
injuring his youngest child and, so injuring his wife as to 
leave her unconscious for many days and in impaired health for a 
long time. She survives, a remarkably gifted and helpful friend of 
missions, with her Mabel, a lovely, winsome girl of gentle manner 
and pleasing face. Mr. White will be remembered by us all as a 
genial, sterling, faithful man. He has left a record of a brief but 
brave and earnest life of cheerful consecration and faith. 



^M:iXX%am S. ^ICMtitXg,— Address, Greenfield, Mass. 

Since graduation he has followed the profession of teaching, 
in which he is now engaged as Principal of the Greenfield High 
School. His studies have been such as come in connection with 
this work. He received the degree of A. M. from Amherst. He 
has been abroad twice, traveling in England, Scotland, France and 
Belgium. 

He was married June 27th, 1883, at Palmer, Mass., to Mary 
Palmer Dewey. They have had one child, Charles Theodore, born 
November 11, 1887. 

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"WiXXiam "^ZVh^Xi '^HiXXiams.— No reply. Address, Spring- 
field, Ohio. 

After college he engaged in flour and produce commission 
business, in Chicago. He then moved to Springfield, Ohio, to enter 
the lumber business with his brother, Elijah Williams, '73. Is mar- 
ried and had one child at last accounts. 



^jetXl;:^ gljCrgaX WiaGdmdiXd.—^o reply. Latest address, 
Mansfield, Conn. 




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Members of the Class who did not Graduate. 



®tet:XjeB §t, ^aiXje^. — with us freshman year. Reported as 
living in Philadelphia, Pa. / 

gXX01C^ ^. 5?^Xj^WXtX,— With us for nearly the entire course. 
Insurance agent at West Upton, Mass. 

g. (&, glaX^WXtX. — In the newspaper business, Pittsfield, Mass. 

%VCXXVi ^. gjecll*— With the class junior and senior years. 
Reported to have died. 

"^ZXhi^Xi ^. ^jejejClXjeiC.— Left at the end of freshman year. 
Living at Port Townsend, Washington, where he has been 
most of the time since leaving college. 

^liXWCXf^Q 5. ^J^XX. — Name in catalogue of freshman year. 

Son of Rev. Sereno E. Bishop, of the Class of 1846, Amherst, 
The early life of Edward was spent chiefly, if not wholly, in the 
Sandwich Islands. He came to East Hampton in 1872, and finished 
his preparation so as to be able to enter Amherst with the Class of 
'76. In the beginning of sophomore year he took a room in old 
East College with E. H. Knight, who continued together in the 
same room till Bishop died. In the winter of junior year, he took a 
severe cold, which developed into typhoid pneumonia, so that he 
rapidly failed, and died February 26, 1875. Knight writes of him: 
" He was always bright, cheerful and interesting as a companion. 
His descriptions of life at the Sandwich Islands were charming. He 
took great delight in botany and chemistry, in which studies he ex- 
celled. I remember his going over to the laboratory one evening, 

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while he had the severe cold which culminated in his death, to work 
with the spectroscope till late at night." 

gatlXjejS g. gXaxJS^jeXX.— Address. Chelsea, Mass. 

Was a member of the class during freshman year. He writes as 
follows: 

" After my freshman year at Amherst, I entered the class of '76 
at Wesleyan, and after graduating I entered Boston University 
School of Medicine, receiving the degree of M. D. in 1879, and the 
degree of A. M. from Wesleyan the same year. I have been in con- 
stant practice since then in Chelsea. I was married in 1888, and 
have two girls, the elder seven years and the younger ten months. 
This in brief is my history since leaving Amherst. I hope the reunion 
will be a grand success, and wish to be remembered to the boys." 

(&Z01CQZ W&i. '^XOmn, — Member during junior year. 

"WiilXmra "^znxVi OPXaprpr.— Address, Northampton, Mass. 

He was admitted to the bar at Northampton, Hampshire County, 
Mass., in June, 1878, and practiced law four years with the firm of 
Bond Bros. & Bottum. He was appointed clerk of courts in June, 
1882, to fill a vacancy, and has since been elected to this office, 
which he now holds. 

He was married December 15, 1887, to Miss Gertrude Quimby, 
of Northampton, Mass., and has one child, Louisa Whiting Clapp, 
born May 14, 1894. 

Jl/XXj^tX 05. CH^XaicU. — Name given in list of class published at grad- 
uation, as having left college during sophomore year. 

"^XZiiZXick giXXitXjgS gxjcMtXJ50U.— Address 521 West Fifth 
Street, Chattanooga, Tenn. 

" During the winter of 1876-7, 1 went to Le Roy, O., and entered 
the home office of The Ohio Farmers Insurance Co., where I re- 
mained eight years as bookkeeper, head bookkeeper, cashier, chief 
clerk, and the last year as special agent, which latter position took 
me over the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Southern Michigan. But 
I was in poor health and after spending a winter in Florida I came 

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to Chattanooga in 1885. where I have been engaged in business 
ever since. I have nothing to add unless I say that in *79 and '80 
I helped to prepare a young man for college and incidentally 
brushed up my acquaintance with the classics and geometry." 

He was married to Stella E. Doty, of Chattanooga, Tenn., 
January 18th, 1883. His children are: Clarence D., born April 
21, 1884; Arthur S., born January 21, 1886. 

^i^OXQi^ gl. '^dmUXdS. — Left the class before senior catalogue 
was published. Died in 1876, soon after leaving college. 

%OhzXi gXig»— Died Nov. 4, 1875. 

WiKXXZn S, ^0wXjeiC.— Dead. 

"^Oh^Xi S. ^uXtjCrtX,— With us through sophomore year. Now a 
clergyman in the Presbyterian Church. 

StiXtjcrw ^. ^oodnom. 

After leaving Amherst, he studied law and was admitted to the 
bar in Vermont, in 1879. He practiced in Brattleboro, Vermont, 
until the autumn of 1886, when he left for Chicago and the west, 
and was for some months clerk of the State Senate, we infer in 
Illinois from the data in hand. In July, 1887, he disappeared, and 
from that time, we are informed, no trace of him has been found. 
He left a wife in Wilmington, Vermont, who has since obtained a 
divorce. 

W&iilXmWi M* SattXiXtjCrtX*— Attorney-at-law, Lincoln, Neb. He 
expected to have been present at the class reunion. 

K^tXtX 'SWCpZXf glC. — Member of the class freshman and sopho- 
more years. Member of Harper Brothers, New York City. 

"^ZXh^Xi Ml. "S^^XBZVi, Member of the class till end of junior 
year. Address, 4034 Green Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 

K. (^. 3^0^Mje. — Member of the class till end of junior year. 

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1XX% '^CdlinQSmOXiK— Member of the class until junior year. 
An artist, in Boston, Mass. 

^tXJCr^e gjCr1XtXSt0tX»— Left during junior year. ' Graduated at Wil- 
liams College. 

M>^WCUZl gl, g0ltrcst0tX.— Left us at the end of junior year. 
Afterwards took the degree of Ph.D. in a German Uni- 
versity and became a teacher in the west. 

'«CiXXiam ^, W^cmnxz. 

Lives a retired life upon a farm in Yeagerstown, Mifflin Co., 
Pa., having been somewhat of an invalid ever since he left college 
at the close of freshman year. The compiler of these sketches re- 
ceived a good letter from McClure. He has a warm place in his 
heart for Amherst and the boys of '76. 

g0lttX 3* ^ajcUaiC^»— Graduated in the Class of 76, Yale, and 
became an attorney-at-law in Boston, Mass. 

^* J^» ^jC^Wa^. — Was successful in business and happily mar- 
ried. Committed suicide after a severe attack of the grippe 
in the summer of 1892. 

"iitiXXxam St* gljeM,— Drowned at Amherst, Mass., Dec. 26, 
1873. 

'^dQWC glXJClX1U0tXid.— Dead. 

"WiXXiam ^* %XCUwC)Oind.— Lives in Evanston, 111. 

^Xon^O g. ^eai;^Xe»— Address, Honesdale, Pa. 

His connection with our class was broken by a serious sickness 
with typhoid fever, lasting sixteen weeks, in the fall of 1872. Upon 
his return to college, he entered and was graduated with the class of 
1877. The next year he taught in Rutland, Vermont. The two fol- 
lowing years he was teacher at Cheltenham Academy, Ogontz, Phil- 

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adelphia, Pa. He commenced reading law in 1878, was admitted to 
the bar in 1881, and at once went into partnership with George G. 
Waller, of Honesdale, Pa. Mr. Waller died in 1888, and since that 
time he has practiced alone. 

He is a director in the leading bank of the town, a member of 
several corporations, president of the school board, and trustee of 
the Presbyterian church. 

He was married in 1882, to Miss Margaret Bois Irwin, of 
Honesdale. He has two sons living. One boy, eleven years' old, 
was drowned in the spring of 1896. 

gjOr^jepflX ^. "WiViXd, — " Hercules " left us during sophomore year. 

gattotX <^. "WiXXiamS.— Address, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

He graduated from Amherst in the class of '77, took a course of 
law at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1880. He was 
admitted to the bar February 14, 1880. He soon took high rank as 
a lawyer and in 1886 and 1887 he was a member of the board of 
examiners for admission to the bar. In September, 1890, he was 
appointed Assistant United States Attorney, and held that office 
until October, 1893. During the illness of County Solicitor Stephen 
H. Geyer, he performed the duties of that office and was elected 
solicitor in June, 1895. This position he now holds. 

He was married November 4, 1880, to Miss Jennie H. Balkam, 
of Robinston, Maine. He has had five children, two of whom are 
now living, Edith Lesley, age 14 years, and Edwin Stowe, age 8. 

OP, % WiiUon.—Bied in 1896, at North Amherst. 



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